Analytic Function Defined

Famous quotes containing the words analytic, function and/or defined:

    ““You, that have not lived in thought but deed,
    Can have the purity of a natural force,
    But I, whose virtues are the definitions
    Of the analytic mind, can neither close
    The eye of the mind nor keep my tongue from speech.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “We are thus able to distinguish thinking as the function which is to a large extent linguistic.”
    —Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1934)

    “The cliché that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.”
    —Patricia Meyer Spacks (b. 1929)